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25 Facts About Robert Courts

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Robert Alexander Courts was born on 21 October 1978 and is a British Conservative politician and barrister who was the Member of Parliament for Witney from 2016 to 2024.

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Robert Courts served as Solicitor General for England and Wales from December 2023 to 2024.

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Robert Courts previously served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport in the Johnson government from 2020 to 2022 and served as Chair of the Defence Select Committee from October to December 2023.

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Robert Courts was born on 21 October 1978 in Stockport.

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Robert Courts's father Ian Courts is a solicitor, company director, and the Conservative leader of Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council.

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Robert Courts was privately educated at Berkhamsted School, where he was head of Fry's House, before studying law at the University of Sheffield.

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Robert Courts worked in Wellington, New Zealand, at the Crown Law Office for the New Zealand Government in 2009.

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Robert Courts stood as a Council candidate in Solihull in 2002 but was unsuccessful.

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Robert Courts was elected a Conservative member of West Oxfordshire District Council in 2014.

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Robert Courts supported the 'Leave' campaign in the 2016 Brexit referendum.

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Robert Courts was selected as the Conservative Party candidate in the 2016 Witney by-election.

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Robert Courts is a member of the European Research Group, having subscribed in April 2017.

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Robert Courts was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in January 2018, but resigned as a PPS on 15 July 2018, in protest of the White Paper on Exiting the European Union and the Chequers Agreement.

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Robert Courts is credited by the House of Commons library with helping to lead the "parliamentary pressure" that led to the announcement of the Ministry of Defence's Combat Air Strategy, the programme for the eventual replacement of the Eurofighter Typhoon.

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Robert Courts represents RAF Brize Norton, the largest RAF base in the UK, and serves as the vice chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Armed Forces.

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Robert Courts is a council member of the Air League.

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In October 2018, the Parliamentary commissioner for standards found Robert Courts had breached rules by using official stationery in campaign updates.

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Robert Courts has said that EDMs are generally tabled by MPs on behalf of "lobbyists or groups keen to show themselves as doing something", that they are "politically impotent" and a waste of taxpayers' money.

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Robert Courts was a supporter of the proposed free trade deal with Australia and New Zealand, describing it as a "no-brainer".

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In 2024, Robert Courts criticized the construction of a larger solar farm in Botley West.

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Robert Courts was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport on 8 September 2020.

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In June 2022, Robert Courts was held partly accountable for the aviation travel crisis in UK airports.

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Robert Courts left the front bench when Liz Truss became prime minister.

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Robert Courts is married to Kathryn; they have two young children, and live in the village of Bladon, Oxfordshire.

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Robert Courts has been a member of the Churchill Centre for many years, and reviews books about Winston Churchill in the quarterly journal, Finest Hour.